Question

read the passage. when the two boys were going to high school, ernest often came over in the evening to study with claude, and while they worked at the long kitchen table mrs. wheeler brought her darning and sat near them, helping them with their latin and algebra. even old massey was enlightened by their words of wisdom. mrs. wheeler said she would never forget the night ernest arrived from the old country. his brother, joe havel, had gone to frankfort to meet him, and was to stop on the way home and leave some groceries for the wheelers. the train from the east was late. it was ten oclock that night when mrs. wheeler, waiting in the kitchen, heard havels wagon rumble across the little bridge over lonely creek. she opened the outside door, and presently joe came in with a bucket of salt fish in one hand and a sack of flour on his shoulder. while he took the fish down to the cellar for her, another figure appeared in the doorway, a young boy, short, stooped, with a flat cap on his head and a great clumsy valise, such as pedlars carry, strapped to his back. he had fallen asleep in the wagon, and on waking and finding his brother gone, he had supposed they were at home and scrambled for his pack. he stood in the doorway, blinking his eyes at the light, looking astonished but eager. which is the first sentence of the passages flashback? 1 when the two boys were going to high school, ernest often came over in the evening to study with claude, and while they worked at the long kitchen table mrs. wheeler brought her darning and sat near them, helping them with their latin and algebra. 2 his brother, joe havel, had gone to frankfort to meet him, and was to stop on the way home and leave some groceries for the wheelers. 3 what if one of her own boys, mrs. wheeler thought. . . . 4 ernest said afterwards that it was his first welcome to this country, though he had travelled so far, and had been pushed and hauled and shouted at for so many days, he had lost count of them.

Explanation:

A flashback is a scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. The passage starts with the present - the boys going to high - school. Then it goes back in time to the night Ernest arrived from the Old Country. The sentence "His brother, Joe Havel, had gone to Frankfort to meet him, and was to stop on the way home and leave some groceries for the Wheelers." is the start of this flashback sequence.

Answer:

1. "His brother, Joe Havel, had gone to Frankfort to meet him, and was to stop on the way home and leave some groceries for the Wheelers."